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Message: [QUOTE="PurgatoryD, post: 1687952, member: 43498"] Your point is well taken and you provide some good examples as to why you are going to be good with a 3 bet in this situation. I agree, and like I said, I will probably be raising as well because it's going to be a pretty specific situation that would cause me to fold. I ran a little pokerstove experiment to get at the heart of what I think the original poster was getting at and what I, to some degree, see as well. Note: this is very simplified so of course we can't generalize it and make more out of it than what it is. But here's the situation. If the hero is in with AK and there is one villain in with a range of AK and any pocket pair, then the hero wins 44% of the time if they go to showdown. However, if you add two additional villains with the range of A-rag, then the hero wins less than 27% of the time. Even if these two villains end up folding, just killing their combined two aces (we'll assume that neither had bullets) reduces the hero's chance of winning to 36%. So I think people are giving the proper advice, but hopefully this makes things clear about a potential danger: you're going to have to get any villains with pocket pairs in their range out of the hand or else things don't look good. So yeah, if you've got someone that you know will call with any pocket pair at all no matter the raise, then you might want to save your money. But if you can get him off of 22 through 99, say, with a good sized bet, then that's the way to go. Note: I am not a statistician and generally cannot operate software properly, so take all percentages given for what they are! :) [/QUOTE]

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